Do electricians make more in Janesville or Minneapolis?

Pay is about the same: the median is $82,170 in Janesville and $81,890 in Minneapolis.

Electrician salary in Janesville, WI

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Janesville–Beloit, WI area earn a median of $82,170 a year, or $39.51 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $103,080. Across all of Wisconsin, the median is $76,540, so Janesville pays 7% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$82,170

Bottom 10% under$45,250Top 10% over$103,080

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $21.76/hr
Jobs in this area: 560
After cost of living: $87,690
Median hourly pay: $39.51/hr
vs U.S. median: +30%
vs Wisconsin median: +7%
Mean (average) pay: $79,870 a year · $38.40 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 27500, Janesville-Beloit, WI). Excludes self-employed electricians. Cost of living: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024. *Starting pay is estimated from the 10th percentile; BLS does not report pay by license level.

Pay by percentile

What electricians in Janesville, WI earn at each point of the pay range, May 2025: 10% earn less than the 10th percentile, half earn less than the median, and 10% earn more than the 90th.

Percentile	Hourly	Yearly
10th percentile	$21.76	$45,250
25th percentile	$28.67	$59,640
Median (50th)	$39.51	$82,170
75th percentile	$46.61	$96,940
90th percentile	$49.56	$103,080

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.

How Janesville, WI compares

Janesville ranks 3rd of 15 Wisconsin metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians are more concentrated in the Janesville area than nationally: 8.0 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.6 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Janesville or Minneapolis?: Pay is about the same: the median is $82,170 in Janesville and $81,890 in Minneapolis.

About this data

Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 47-2111 (Electricians), area code 27500 (Janesville-Beloit, WI). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed electricians and business owners aren't included. The cost-of-living figure divides the median by the Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parity for 2024 (93.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures